Sunday, September 24, 2017

My Random Map Generator for Duke3d, Randuke has been updated to version 1.8

Well. I've been working on my duke3d map generator, Randuke. Randuke as detailed in the last post (which did well here BTW!) is a map generator designed for the Duke3d mod Duke++. Duke++ is a mod I made which is based on duke plus and adds the ability to play as Lo Wang and Caleb plus new enemies (from lameduke, shadow warrior and blood) and new weapon and item sprites for all player classes... It also adds textures and decorations from lameduke, shadow warrior and blood. The mod was designed to be a mod that would be the base for a duke3d/shadow warrior/blood crossover tc for duke3d that was never finished...

The map generator has gone through one major change since the last version was released... It now can generate levels with different themes, the themes being duke3d, shadow warrior and blood.  It does this by having 3 different sets of prefabs, one for each theme. I just took the prefabs I made and retextured them to make these sets. I think they came out good. I especially like the shadow warrior theme...

The map generator works by gluing prefabs together randomly. There are 20 prefabs per theme. Several indoor and outdoor ones. The outdoor ones are better looking than the indoor ones I think but the indoor ones aren't that bad looking in itself. But don't expect super detail in these, I am not nearly that good of a mapper in build, and build was hard as hell to learn for me so I only did decent detail...

But one thing you can expect in version 1.8 is hordes of enemies. You see I really like Slaughtermaps for Doom 2 so I decided to make Randuke not just a random map generator but a Random Slaughrermap Generator. I decided to increase the enemy count in outdoor areas till the enemy count in them was around 100 per outdoor area. I was inspired by the duke3d maps Argh!shopping and Duke's Nightmare to do this, they are both insane slaughter maps for duke3d and I liked them a lot. So from now on this map generator will design insane hordes of enemies into maps with outdoor prefabs randomly selected!

Here are some screenshots of the maps that were generated tonight by the map generator... Notice the blood and shadow warrior themed maps that are in it now...





You can download randuke here:
https://www.4shared.com/archive/sP2fg2Hkca/randuke.html
Download the mod that is required to play the maps here:
https://www.4shared.com/archive/XO2IW7WKei/DukePlus.html


Use randuke like this:
A) Unzip randuke and all of the mods files to your duke3d folder....
B) Select a theme by typing C:\duke3d\randuke\theme.bat <theme> in a windows run box
<theme> is d3d for duke3d, sw for shadow warrior and bld for blood.
C) Load dosbox (it requires it)
D) in dosbox type "mount C: C:\duke3d\randuke"
E) Hit Ctrl+F12 till the cpu speed become 50000
F) type randuke.exe and hit enter...
G) It will ask you to fill in details... The first one should be 8 the next one should be 0 and the next 3 should be 1... Hit enter and then be patient as it builds your level.
H) To run the map, run dukeplus.bat in C:\duke3d and then find load a usermap, go to the randuke folder and run fin-1.map
I) To play as lo wang or caleb type dukeplus.bat sw or dukeplus.bat bld instead of just dukeplus.bat


EDIT : Major bug fix here... There was a possibility of the map being unplayable in blood and shadow warrior themes. It has been fixed!

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